I have been neglecting Transport Blog. We all have. So here are a clutch of transport-related pictures, which I can link to from there. Maybe that will get me going again. Click on the photos to get the bigger pictures.

Photo 1: I saw her in a shop window, in Oxford Street. No I don’t understand that headgear either. It’s definitely London bus. But why? Art, I suppose.

Photo 2: A helicopter, parked outside the Department of Trade and Whatnot, inside the huge new front door of the place that probably cost more than a house.

Photo 3: The police still use horses, mostly for riots I presume, and perhaps for public events. But when there are no riots or events, the horses still need to get out and keep busy. These two look like they’re escorting some buses along Victoria Street, but they aren’t really.

Photo 4: Lorry for transporting plant, not plants, and certainly not tomato plants. It’s a joke. But why all the lights?

Photo 5: The Police again. Police vehicles never used to be this garish. Click and you also see a bike shop. But it doesn’t seem to bother with a website.

Photo 6: Seats on some London buses have been replaced by vertical leaning surfaces, so that more can stand in a bus than could have sat on it.

Photo 7: Advertising on the move. The trick is to have a weird vehicle that attracts attention. If there is a website, I can’t find it in my photo.

Photo 8 Again, two kinds of transport in one snap. The Goodyear Blimp hovers over the former Eurostar Station at Waterloo. Is that going be doing anything, any time soon? Or is it going to be empty for ever? All I could find on the internet was a reference to it being turned into a theatre:

The Railway Children was first produced by York Theatre Royal at the National Railway Museum before transferring to a newly built theatre at the old Eurostar terminal at Waterloo.

What a waste. Still, I suppose anything is better than absolutely nothing.

In my day job I operate (and sometimes drive) a plant-transporting lorry, so I can shed some light (groan) on the multitude of lights on that rig;
1) Plant is often delivered to farms and the like in the middle of nowhere down long narrow tracks, in darkness. A big row of headlamps helps see where the hell you’re going.
2) When you’re not delivering to godforsaken farms you’re often delivering to busy city locations, roadsides etc; and lots of flashing amber lights stops quite as many numpties from crashing into the lorry/the plant being unloaded/you. They also deter said numpty from sueing quite so readily in the event of an accident.
3) Lorry drivers like to have lots of lights on their lorry as they think it looks cool.